active mq (size of the internal data structure and expiration of messages)

["Suchitha Koneru (sukoneru)" <su...@cisco.com>]

Hello Active Mq Users , 
                      I am using Publish/subscribe model for transfer of
messages with durable subscriptions. I suppose that active mq
internally stores messages using queue or a similar data structure.
 
I was just wondering about the size of this queue maintained internally
by Active MQ. Does it  overflow ? How will we know, what it's capacity
is ? 
Any insight in regard to this ?
Also , the messages place in this internal queue  will be  discarded  ,
once they expire ?  What is the time frame , within which they have to
be consumed ? is there a way to determine this?
 
thanks,
Suchitha

Re: active mq (size of the internal data structure and expiration of messages)

[Rob Davies <ra...@gmail.com>]

On 7 Feb 2007, at 19:38, Suchitha Koneru ((sukoneru)) wrote:

> Hello Active Mq Users ,
>                       I am using Publish/subscribe model for  
> transfer of
> messages with durable subscriptions. I suppose that active mq
> internally stores messages using queue or a similar data structure.
yes it does. For Durable Subscribers,  there is one queue for the  
messages, and for each subscriber a queue of references, one  
reference, per message for each subscriber. When there are no more  
interested subscribers in the message, it will be removed from the  
message queue.
>
> I was just wondering about the size of this queue maintained  
> internally
> by Active MQ. Does it  overflow ? How will we know, what it's capacity
> is ?
> Any insight in regard to this ?
We support a lot of different storage options, and although we expose  
the depth (cardinality) of the queue, as yet, we do not provide a  
generic mechansim for imposing limits on the durable messages.
> Also , the messages place in this internal queue  will be   
> discarded  ,
> once they expire ?  What is the time frame , within which they have to
> be consumed ? is there a way to determine this?
Messages are generally discarded when they expire. Some storage  
options only do this when fetching the messages (check to see if the  
message should be expired) - others do it periodically (this will  
become the norm for all message stores).


cheers,

Rob Davies
http://rajdavies.blogspot.com/

>
> thanks,
> Suchitha